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AQHEPNER COMBINED SHIRT AND LAGING. No. 352,321. Patented-Nov. 9, 1886.

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UNITED STATES ARNOLD HEPNER, OF NEW YORK, N.Y.

PATENT FFTCE.

COMBINED SH lRT AND LACING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,321, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed August 17, 1886. Serial No. 211,101.

when the same is to be washed, and which can be adjusted so as to fit on shirts having a greater or less number of buttons and buttons spaced differently.

The invention consists in the combination of the said lace with a shirt having two rows of buttons, the lace being crossed and passing alternately from the buttons of one row to the buttons on the other row, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of a part of a shirt provided with my improved looped shirt-lace. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional View on line a; 00, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts;

-A represents the front of the shirt; B, the buttons secured on the same in two rows, one at each side of the front opening or slit.

The lace 0 consists of a single piece, the ends of which are ornamented by means of tassels D, buttons, or other suitable ornaments. The lace is doubled, and at the middle it is passed around the bottom button, B, which is at the bottom of the slit or opening of the shirt. Before passing the lace around the bottom button, B, a sleeve, E, made of coiled wire, Wood, metal, or other suitable material, is slipped on the doubled lace to form a loop, F. [he lace is passed up to the lowest right and left buttons and doubled again to form a loop, F, another sleeve, E, being slipped onv the loop that is formed, then the lace is crossed to the next two higher buttons, loops formed (No model.)

in the manner described, and the sleeve slipped 45 on each loop. and so on up to the top, where the ends of the lace are tied. A loop is thus formed for each button, and between each button and the slit or opening of the shirt a sleeve, E, is mounted on the lace, there being as many sleeves and loops as there are buttons. The lace can easily be detached, all that is necessary being to unbutton it, the sleeves remaining on the lace. In case the buttons are spaced close together the loops must be lengthened, so as to decrease the length of the crossingparts of the lace.

that is, the length of the parts between one button and the next button above it on the other side. Incase the buttons are a greater distance apart, the diagonal or crossing parts ofthe lace must be lengthened,which is accomplished by moving the sleeves toward the buttons and decreasing the size of the loops. case the top buttons are omitted, the upper sleeves are withdrawn and the free ends of the lace are lengthened. The lace can thus be adjusted for a different number of buttons and different arrangements and locations of the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pateut The combination, with a shirt having two rows of buttons, of asingle lace doubled at intervals to form loops for receiving the buttons, upon each of which loops a sleeve is mounted,

the lace crossing each other and passing alter nately from a sleeve of a loop on one row of buttons to the sleeve'of a loop on the next higher button of the opposite row, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABN OLD HEPNER.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, MARTIN PETRY. 

